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11/09/2007: "Weekend Eye Candy - Overseas Edition"

Here in America, we like to think that we've invented everything that's important and those we didn't invent, we perfected. Sometimes, we're right, but sometimes, we're spectacularly wrong.

I'm referring to, of course, the glamour model. There was a time when we had cornered the market on pin-up girls. Just ask anyone who served in WWII, and they'll tell you about the girl whose picture they had with them. 9 out of 10 will tell you it was a pinup.

Somewhere along the way, though, America got lost. Our little girls started to grow up believing they had to make something of themselves, or at least try to. The would-be pinups became actresses, or singers, or actress/singers ... or waitresses. No longer could someone make a living just for how they looked.

Not so in England, however. From Jordan to Katie to Keeley, the glamour model is alive and well across the pond. Thanks to a large number of publications that run pinup photos - including the Sun and their infamous Page Three Girls (thank you, Rupert Murdoch!) - you can maintain a fine lifestyle doing nothing more than posing seductively.

Never one to make a point without proof, we bring you Gemma Atkinson. Gemma has dabbled in acting and singing - and, of course, reality TV - but here she is doing what she does best: posing and pouting.

Hail, Brittania, indeed!

Replies: 3 Comments

On Sunday, November 11th, Ravelling Tangler said:

Those shoes really don't go with that swimsuit.

I'll see if I can have a word with her & tell her to take one or the other off !

On Monday, November 12th, ollie said:

What you guys don't know is that the acting roll she is known for was in a teenage soap. Sure she has been out of it for a while, but boy where did they come from!

On Friday, November 16th, RavTan(again) said:

thanks, ollie :- "Hollyoaks" is like "the O.C." but with fewer rich people and no beach front.

She's all over the place just now because she's joined a "reality" TV show called "I'm a Celebrity, get me out of here " and the pin ups (a.k.a. Red Top tabloid newspapers and gossib magazines and "lad's mags&quot just love that.

Stan if you'd like a couple of of lad's mags which feature her extensively , by snail mail, just drop me a PM or reply here.

Not to affect your answer, but the 'erudite' nature of these fine publications can be judged by their titles:- "Zoo" and "Nuts" (I kid you not !)